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Amid continued militia and government attacks, it is Darfur's civilians--both Arab and African--who suffer most. Battles last year drove more than 280,000 from their homes. Some find their way to Darfur's swollen relief camps, home now to well over a third of the region's population. But the camps are not immune to the violence. Many are controlled by the armed factions, and gangs of all stripes rob and rape many of those who venture outside. Other refugees wander Darfur's unforgiving scrub, searching for a village or patch of land with some semblance...
...humanitarian convoys. While there's a great deal of pressure on the Sudanese government, more could be applied to the rebels, who sometimes take international outrage over Darfur as a license for murder. And the aid community should increase efforts to service the Arab majority--people like Ahmed, who suffer many of the same hardships as the Africans...
...exacerbate a fixation with numbers. “It’ll have them focused more on [numbers] than just being able to enjoy food. It takes out some of the natural part of eating.”It’s not just Ivy League students who suffer, though.“There are just some things about the college atmosphere that are conducive to eating disorders,” Herzog says. “First of all there’s the physical separation from home, the schedule around food changes a great deal; and then there?...
...worker’s healthcare premiums. Worst of all, businesses’ foreign divisions will have to pay the U.S. corporate tax rate, instead of their host countries’ rates. At 35 percent, our corporate tax rate is the second highest in the developed world, so companies would suffer a tax increase. And no, they don’t deserve one. In 2005, the National Bureau of Economic Research found that when U.S. companies take on more foreign workers, they tend to hire more American workers as well. Everyone benefits from the lower prices that result from companies moving...
What’s more, even this benign issue ends up—like too much of life here in Cambridge—a question of money. The wealthiest students can better afford a larger bed; less well-off students must suffer sleeplessly. Financial aid increases are all well and good, but economic injustice persists in our bedrooms. Why won’t The New York Times report on this...